The following page includes some material previously posted on my page about Glass Containers Corporation of Fullerton, California. The content was edited and transferred to this new page on December 22, 2020. This particular mark has been found to have no connection with Glass Containers, but was used by Glaser-Crandell Company of Chicago, Illinois. (The name of the company is also styled as “Glaser, Crandell Company” and occasionally, in some sources, the second surname is misspelled “Crandall”).
This “mystery mark” had been unidentified for a long time. The mark consists of the letters “G. C. Co.” and has been seen on several different glass containers, including a condiment bottle with the patent number “PAT DES 78426” embossed on the base, and a clear “sugar shaker” or “mustard container” with fluted sides.
From information recently uncovered by researcher Bob Brown, it has now been revealed the patent number is actually “98426” and the first digit of the five-digit patent number was incorrectly engraved into the bottle mold in question. That particular patent (for the design of a condiment bottle) was officially issued to Glaser-Crandell Company of Chicago, Illinois on February 4, 1936. Glaser-Crandell was a distributor/manufacturer of various food products, primarily condiments such as sauces, ketchup, mustard, etc.
(Please note that the actual glass bottle manufacturer that made these containers for Glaser-Crandell is not identified…… G-C Co was not itself a glassmaker. If I had to make a guess, I would suspect Owens-Illinois Glass Company or Hazel-Atlas Glass Company as a possible producer of these bottles, but I have no proof of that!!)
Here is a link showing info on the patent number 98426:
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/d4/3a/d4/1e48a478455c3d/USD98426.pdf
Condiment bottle:
The two photos below were submitted by Anthony Herren. This container is marked “G. C. CO” on the base, as well as “PAT. DES. 78426” .
Ad below (from Pinterest) showing a barbeque sauce bottle in an ad published in 1948. Note the illustration of the bottle in this particular ad does not look exactly like the bottle in the photos sent by Anthony Herren. This is evidently a different (but similar) style bottle made for Glaser-Crandell to contain their “Derby Barbeque sauce”.
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Sugar Shaker / Jar (posted May 19, 2017): Another bottle with the mark “G.C.Co.” on the base has been reported to me several times over the last several years (by Matt Nesbitt, Kim Pettiet, Kimberly Glasser, and Joe). You can see their posts in the Comments section at the bottom of the Glass Containers Corporation page.
The bottle/shaker has ten vertical flutes (panels). I recently came across an example of one, and have photographed it for this webpage. It was dug with other bottles dating mostly from the 1930s-1940s era. The mold number “6” appears on this one, but other examples that have been reported bear other single-digit mold numbers. The number “890” is evidently the style or inventory number assigned to that bottle design by the factory.
This container was evidently sold (filled) as a mustard jar. It was probably saved by some consumers and reused as a shaker for salt, pepper or sugar. I have found other instances of the same type of shaker listed in ebay auctions, usually fitted with a painted perforated metal lid. This was probably made in the 1930s or 1940s, but I don’t have information to pin down the actual date range of production. See next two pics:
Two more pictures (added August 17, 2021) . These photos were sent to me by Julie Murray. (Thank you, Julie!) This example was evidently sold with mustard inside, but the label indicates it as a “SUGAR SHAKER JAR”. I assume that was a marketing ploy to encourage the buyer to buy that brand of prepared mustard so they could save and reuse the container after it was empty. This example has a mold number “10” on the bottom.
Another bottle design. Here are the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office patent papers for yet a third bottle (which I have not seen in person). In this case, the bottle design was patented on October 21, 1930, and the patent design number issued is #82,339. https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/95/3c/56/fd2d61da0a14ef/USD82339.pdf
If anyone happens to run across an example of this bottle, I would love to have a picture for this webpage! I do not know for a fact that the bottle (assuming some of that design were actually manufactured) bears the “G. C. Co.” mark, but it is likely.
Here is a Google keyword search, with various links having something to do with Glaser-Crandell:
Glaser Crandell – Google Search
(Thanks also to Carol Serr for letting me know about the recent information uncovered on this particular mark!)
For an extensive list of glass manufacturers’ marks seen on bottles, fruit jars, electrical insulators and tableware, please check out my alphabetical listings beginning with page one, here: Glass Bottle Marks.
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